Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive. SUCCESS! United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. Andrew Sullivan writes a post that’s a perfect example [...]
I see Glenn “I’m a tax-supported professor with time on my hands” Reynolds — does that guy ever teach any classes? — is sliming Tom Woods’ best-selling book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, without — of course — having actually read it. Now, I haven’t read it yet, either — but based on [...]
Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: “THE NYT’S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It happens. We’re all human and our judgment is never [...]
The official results aren’t in yet, nor are any preliminary returns, but that isn’t stopping the United Iraqi Alliance backed by fundamentalist Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Sistani from claiming victory — and an overwhelming one at that: “Officials in the United Iraqi Alliance believe their bloc of mainly Shi’ite parties has won almost half of the [...]
As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American “democracy”-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning — “some came on crutches” — over the fake “72 percent turnout” figure thrown out by Iraqi government officials and later hailing the corrected [...]
Stephen Schwartz, self-described “Trotsky-con,” frenzed defender of Uzbekistan‘s brutal dictatorship, and always a barrel of laughs, must be off his medication again, ’cause here he is taking credit for the Iraqi election: “The group of non-Iraqis in America entitled to exult is tiny: it consists of President Bush himself, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, [...]
